I haven't seen a black american hired in tech in a decade. The last black american I saw in tech, they hired an indian manager, and the black guy was the first guy he fired.
Since then the only black guy I saw hired turned out to be from a suburb in africa.
My experience is the beneficiaries are people with well off parents from other countries.
Or white women.
How can it. There's two basic possibilities
You are put in a position that you are not qualified for.
You are qualified for the position but everyone thinks, you aren't
Either of these possibilities leads to the realization that you needn't even try to do your best. And when you stop trying doing your best, the only way is down. For you, for your children, for your community.
Just look at black people in america. There's never been so many programs to 'help' black youth to succeed, yet they are worse off in every metric that actually counts.
The few that aren't worse off, are considered white by their peers and the president of the United States.
To put it bluntly:
All of these programs are centered around the idea that you can spend your way out of this problem -- but its impossible.
I saw some bullshit article recently where increased welfare benefits in California found that the benefit to kids was like $48 for every $1 spent.
Instead of tearing apart their methodology (which I don't care about) -- I just wonder what the benefit of having two supportive parents and a supportive community around you is. Could you even put a number on it? I am sure it's magnitudes higher than 48:1, especially because it doesn't require any monetary spending whatsoever.
But that requires either side to address the root cause: a rotten fucking culture.